Glen Johnson, the Boston Globe's chief Demomob propagandizing hack, tells another of his not infrequent truth benders with this sample: "'This is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how do we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on Wall Street and folks on Main Street, have a shot at success and if they're working hard and they're acting responsibly, that they're able to live out the American Dream,' said Obama." (quote mark changes by commentor) Johnson makes the following claim that the entire Obama quoted reply to the comment by Newark Mayor Booker about the Obama campaign's remarks about venture capitalism was supplied this way: ".Here is the president's full answer, as transcribed by White House stenographers, followed by Romney's response:" There is no way, Mr. Johnson, that the White House would employ a stenographer who sticks the words, "said Obama" into the middle of a full quote. Your statement quoted in the paragraph just above this one is an untruth, aka lie. You owe your readers an explanation, and almost certainly, an apology.

Glen Johnson's reporting of two paragraphs of remarks purportedly from the Mitt Romney campaign seem to be a reply to the Obama criticism of the Newark Mayor Booker statement about venture capitalism, cited here (quote marks changed by this writer): "Two hours later, the Romney campaign responded with a statement directly from the candidate. "'President Obama confirmed today that he will continue his attacks on the free enterprise system, which Mayor Booker and other leading Democrats have spoken out against,' said Romney. "'What this election is about is the 23 million Americans who are still struggling to find work and the millions who have lost their homes and have fallen into poverty. President Obama refuses to accept moral responsibility for his failed policies. My campaign is offering a positive agenda to help America get back to work,' he said." One might assume that Johnson is typing for reader use the full two paragraphs put out by the Romney campaign. If so, he commits the same offense he offered readers in using words supposedly recorded by White House stenographers... with Johnson's improperly inserted "***** said". Johnson either thinks readers are unable to follow a quotation of more than one paragraph, or just can't keep his own unneeded interpretation out of a story. Either way, he lied to his readers... at least in the case of Obama remarks, maybe also in the case of Romnney remarks.

Unfortunately a third comment is needed. The changed quotation marks in both the comments below appear to be incorrect. They are not incorrect, but are as they are because they were changed according to the way the Boston Globe story by Glen Johnson was paragraphed. In journaListic practice, there are open quotes (double and single if necessary) at the start of a paragraph. At the end of a paragraph, there would be no double quotes, although a single quote may be needed. The last paragraph of a multi-paragrap;h quotation requires a double quote mark to close the quote (and a single quote if merited).